Inspiring Older Readers
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A Life of My Own posted on 07 Apr 2018
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Claire Tomalin's honest and unflinching autobiography. So why is he oddly disappointed?
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The Gifts of Reading posted on 06 Apr 2018
This slim 40 page pocket-sized offering is the latest in the line of Penguin published booklets ...
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Goodbye To All That posted on 03 Apr 2018
I should say from the outset that this is a review of the revised second edition of Graves’ autobiography that was released in 1957
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol posted on 02 Apr 2018
Arthur Wragg, Christian Socialist, pacifist, political campaigner and artist, provided the introduction to this copy of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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The Flood posted on 31 Mar 2018
This is the first Maggie Gee novel I’ve read and it’s quite an experience – not, I confess, one without its problems.
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Can great novels ever survive the transition to a graphic format? posted on 29 Mar 2018
A little while ago I thought I should try to come to some kind of accommodation with the genre usually described as graphic novels.
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Hay Festival 2018 programme posted on 27 Mar 2018
The full programme for this year's Hay festival has now been published ...
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The 32 Stops posted on 27 Mar 2018
As a university lecturer I seem to spend a lot of time thinking how best to bring the issues of social and economic inequality to life for students.
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Ida Kar, Bohemian Photographer posted on 26 Mar 2018
Ida Kar (1908 – 1974) has come to be acknowledged as one of the true pioneers of photography as an art form..
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English Urbane and Irish Fizz at the Oxford Literary Festival posted on 24 Mar 2018
Our only trip to this year’s Oxford Literary festival was to see two literary heavyweights in rapid succession.